Five Percent Federal Jobs by 2013-No Excuses!

In an effort to push for real employment infrastructure change www.thisabled.com and www.Adssistant.com are asking our readers to read and sign our online petition. The petition calls on President Obama to increase the number of Federal employees with disabilities by five percent.

Five percent may not seem like much, however, the current rate of employees with disabilities working federal jobs is 0.97 percent. That is less than 1 percent! We must expect better from our government and a five percent change is only a starting point; but we must start somewhere.

Currently, this petition and topic is also featured on Facebook as a Cause, join us at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/190729?m=48fc3623 or discuss in our Forum at http://www.thisabled.com/forum/index.php . Assist us in pushing for greater employment opportunities for people with disabilities by signing our petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/Thisable/petition.html

Petition Text

We call on President of the United States Barrack Obama to employee people with disabilities at all levels of the Federal Government. Currently people with disabilities make-up less than 1 percent of the Federal workforce, this is unacceptable. We can longer afford to keep the most vulnerable in poverty by denying them jobs. America is better than that and we will prove it!

Five percent of Federal workforce to be people with disabilities by 2013, no excuses!
Together, we will send Washington a clear and unequivocal mandate to fix the unemployment problem which faces 54 million people with disabilities. We will not, we cannot and we must not take the same lame excuses, we have for decades. Five percent-No Excuses!

Sign the petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/Thisable/petition.html
Please forward to at least 5 other people.